The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion plan, announced last week, to plant trees and restore landscapes across Africa and the US has already raised red flags for some conservation experts and activists. The hope with the new conservation investment is to preserve ecosystems that naturally draw down and store planet-heating carbon dioxide pollution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Each month, DollarPerMonth.org selects three charities for its members (who have pledged to donate a minimum of $1 per month) to vote on. DollarPerMonth.org :: dollarpermonth.org. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Timekiwi :: timekiwi.com. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2024

Common affinity indicators include political contributions, giving histories with your nonprofit, past involvement, and personal connections to board members or other major donors. For example, a prospect’s political donations and volunteering history might reveal that they prioritize environmental causes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. This website allows your supporters to pledge to donate with each Facebook Status Update or Tweet they post on Facebook or Twitter. Donors can pledge as little as $.01 HelpAttack! :: helpattack.com.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Organizational Overview: Background information on the nonprofit’s history, structure, and key personnel. Perhaps they’ve set a funding goal that is a bit too conservative, given your donor’s average lifetime value and the number of recurring donors your organization has. This also works in the inverse.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For his first round of funding, Bezos chose to back a handful of legacy organizations with an established history of advocacy on behalf of the planet. Human rights abuses came to light in a 2019 BuzzFeed News investigation into the nearly 60-year-old conservation charity World Wildlife Fund.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Steven: I’m seeing a lot of people, their staff, they have a caring staff, mentors, their mission, their loyal supporters, relationships with people in the community, programmatic strategies, holistic approach to the services we offer, institutional knowledge and history, that’s cool. they could be shots in the dark. Steven: Yup.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” And Lynn Grant, a great fundraiser working with Nature Conservancy in Canada, was going into a corporate office a number of years ago, they were going to ask for a quarter of a million dollars. And, you know, what I tend to do in these environments is I have a pledge form with me. Because many rich people don’t.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

A landmark victory for conservative jurists, the Dukes case was another gender pay gap lawsuit, hoping to represent more than 1.6 This is what the conservative agenda has done to this area of jurisprudence,” Shaver says. Moussouris hoped that Microsoft would sign the pledge as a way of healing the rift left by the lawsuit.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A labor advocacy group called We Are Somebody, led by Nina Turner, launched a boycott of Target on February 1 to coincide with Black History Month. Tuchman thinks a reason is because there were plenty of other beers that the brands mostly conservative customer base could buy to replace Bud Light.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2018

Two quick examples: Earth Day for an environmentally focused group, or Women’s History Month for an organization committed to electing more women to office. If you’re a group focused on government ethics, it may not make sense to ask for photo submissions; if you’re a conservation group, it would. It’s not easy, no.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

In keeping with Republican tradition, there will also be bad-faith questions about conservative bias.). If your firm can accrete the value of the largest firm in the world in five weeks, and money is power, then isn’t your firm the most powerful private entity in history? And this one, about Apple. Javier Espinoza / Financial Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

The New York Times ’ Kevin Roose does a regular bit on Twitter where he posts the day’s top Facebook posts with links, and the results often skew heavily toward the conservative side. Microsoft has pledged not to sell facial recognition technology to police departments until it’s been federally regulated.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

On Friday afternoon, Facebook made one of its most controversial content moderation decisions in company history. On Monday, they mounted the most significant collective worker action in the company’s 15-year history. The company tweeted that it was pledging the funds “in support of efforts to address social injustice.” (Kim

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

The optimist believes that the long arc of history bends toward justice. Unsurprisingly, according to a National Research Group survey, liberals were far more likely to support Twitter, with conservatives more likely to oppose the decision. America is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We’re long enough into the history of these apps that we know many of the ways in which they will be used, and misused. One of the themes of the piece is that Facebook leadership is caught between competing forces in the United States: a liberal-leaning employee base versus a more conservative US population.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

I teach history in Connecticut , but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my interest in the subject was sparked by visits to local museums. As a professor, Ive integrated the institutions exhibits into my history courses. museums are portraying history. museums are portraying history. Of course, history is contested.

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